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Will Rogers (1879-1935) was an American stage and film actor Rogers was known as “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son”. By the mid-1930s Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was one of the highest-paid film stars. He died during a plane accident in 1935. His IMDb page shows 54 acting credits from 1918 to 1935. This page will rank Will Rogers movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Shorts and his early movies in the 1920s were not included in the rankings.
Will Rogers Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Will Rogers Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
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- Sort Will Rogersmovies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Will Rogers
1. William Penn Adair Rogers was born in Oklahoma in 1879. He was a Cherokee citizen born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.
2. Will Rogers began his show business career as a trick roper in “Texas Jack’s Wild West Circus” in South Africa:
3. On a trip to New York City, Will Rogers was at Madison Square Garden, on April 27, 1905, when a wild steer broke out of the arena and began to climb into the viewing stands. Rogers roped the steer to the delight of the crowd. The feat got front-page attention from the newspapers, giving him valuable publicity and an audience eager to see more.
4. In 1922 Will Rogers’ weekly articles for the “New York Times” became so popular that they appeared in more than 500 U.S. newspapers daily. The articles dished out down-to-earth, biting criticism of politics, politicians, big business, and the imbalance of the wealthy and the poor. In all, Rogers wrote more than 2,800 daily articles up until his death.
5. As host of the 1933 Academy Awards ceremony, Will Rogers made a minor blunder when announcing the Best Director Award. After reading the nominees he told the winner, “Come and get it, Frank!” Frank Capra (nominated for Lady for a Day (1933)) was halfway to the podium before he realized Rogers meant Frank Lloyd (winner for Cavalcade (1933)).
5a. Will Rogers on his tombstone. “When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: “I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident [sic] like.” I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved.”
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Thanks for the video share Bruce, nice to see a Will Rogers page pop up here and with all the stats. I haven’t seen any of his films.
We have the same no.1 on our charts – Steamboat Round the Bend, I wouldn’t mind watching that if it ever turns up on TV.
Good work. Vote Up!
Despite its brevity the video gave me enjoyment to the tune of 98%.
BEST STILLS/LOBBY CARDS
1/They Had to See Manchester
2/Mr Skitch
3/Handy Andy
4/David Harum
5/Too busy to Work
6/Ambassador Bill
7/Dr Joel
8/Life Begins at 40
9/Judge Priest
10/2 for Connecticut Yankee
11/State Fair
12/all 3 for Steamboat Round the Bend.
Hi Bob, thanks for the review, generous rating and info, much appreciated.
Happy you liked the posters, stills and lobby cards.
I’d heard of Will Rogers of course, but I’d never seen any of his films. If any turn up on TCM I will be curious to see one. He was very popular in his time and than suddenly he was gone, died in a plane crash.
One Will Rogers films scored 9 out of 10 – Judge Priest, it was one of three films directed by John Ford. Steamboat Round the Bend, also by John Ford had the best score average on my chart and Bruce’s critics chart too.
Steamboat is no.1 at IMDB and Judge Priest tops at Rotten Tomatoes.
As Bruce notes in the trivia Rogers had Cherokee ancestry, “My ancestors may not have come over on the Mayflower, but they met ’em at the boat.”
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.”
“There’s two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.”
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
“The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”
“We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
HI STEVE
As always the feedback is appreciated.
I liked your quotes of Will’s quips and your reference to his Cherokee ancestry reminded me of a remark by James Garner that I may have mentioned before on this site.
Jim had given up a lifetime of boozing and an interview asked him what had finally made him decide to stop drinking and he replied “I am part Cherokee and I have a bad temper; so when I got drunk I used to get so mad that I wanted to go and take our land back!”
Keep safe.